How to Restore Confidence in FFXIV

[Stormpeaks]

You'd be surprised the amount of people and communities who still find the game fine, if you actually step out of your own zone. They have their issues sure but they dont go overboard with the constant doomsaying you constantly see here.

Hopefully you understand that a lot of these same people are also heavily slowing themselves down on purpose, or not playing the content at all, Vel is a good example of that, they will keep telling you that the game and its content is fine, yet they do absolutely none of the content, so of course it'll be fine to them, a lot of people just hang out in this game which is fine, as I've said a million times, I myself mostly hang out and do housing, that doesnt mean I cant see where other people are coming from because I can see that the content is barely existant, so their complaints are valid, I wont tell them that the content is fine because it's just not right.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Hopefully you understand that a lot of these same people are also heavily slowing themselves down on purpose, or not playing the content at all, Vel is a good example of that, they will keep telling you that the game and its content is fine, yet they do absolutely none of the content, so of course it'll be fine to them, a lot of people just hang out in this game which is fine, as I've said a million times, I myself mostly hang out and do housing, that doesnt mean I cant see where other people are coming from because I can see that the content is barely existant, so their complaints are valid, I wont tell them that the content is fine because it's just not right.

I mean, Its not as if I dont necessarily disregard everything people say. A lot of the things people criticize I agree with to a certain extent, and even I have my own harsh critiques to parts of this game. But I'm a perspective person so when I take a step back and look at this game, its doing what its intended to be and everywhere I go, people are responding favorably. If this game where in such a big crisis then yeah we'd be seeing a lot more outlets of people saying the same opinions but its not.

My big problem is when people act irrational about it, especially how recently Im seeing folks here now pinning the blame of this game's problems to rp venues? Excuse me?

This doesnt ever mean the criticism needs to stop. Thats idiotic. What needs to stop is the attitude associated with it.

[TheLoveJenovan]

This is a repost from here. I was a long time subscriber, cancelled a year ago and re-subed for 1 month in April 2023. I'm letting my sub lapse...again.

I'll just add another note for players who are stuck.

FFXIV doesn't reinvest any of the $12.99 monthly subscription, and it has a big problem with maintenance, cheating and lackluster content recently. Genshin Impact and Warframe are arguably better and more modern games, and they're free to play.* The Sereneteapot in Genshin Impact, for example, is what the Island Sanctuary should have been.

Don't give your money to a company that doesn't value your patronage. Big companies like Square-Enix only follow the dollars.

*: I spent less than $30 on each of those games to support them, and I had as much fun in them as FFXIV, which I spent over $350 on subs and 2 expansions.